Kia Ora Kevinians and Supporters of the College,
Thanks to the amazing Lorenna Marshall for this wonderful picture of the cloud formations over SKC last week. The weather is playing a bigger and bigger role in the way we view what we are doing in education as the climate continues to change. This week I attended the SPANZ (Secondary Principals of New Zealand ) conference, where unsurprisingly, emergency management was a hot topic given the effect of the cyclone in the North Island. The keynote speakers all discussed the idea of change management from managing climate change, to Covid, to changes in AI. All of these developments present education and educational institutions with challenges but also with the opportunity to look for different ways to look at education and what it means in the 21st Century.
The rapid growth in AI technology is currently causing a lot of angst in education in New Zealand. On one hand the technology is able to aid administrators in writing up basic reports or standard procedures. One the other hand the fraudulent use of these tools is something that is challenging to the way in which schools administer NCEA. It is also often difficult for students to understand where the line between their research process and plagiarism lies. In essence, if a student uses text that they have not written themselves and submits it as their own work without referencing where the text came from, that is plagiarism. The same thing applies if the text is written by an AI programme. Plagiarism processes are laid out in the NZQA guides given to students at the beginning of the year. If you have any questions around this process, please direct them to our head of Curriculum Mr Craig Smith. Mr Smith is delegated by the School Board as responsible for these investigations.
Enjoy the first King's Birthday Weekend this weekend.
God Bless
Jo
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